Offer Blood as Help
The problem on the station beds didn't look even likely, but they were doing a lot of things, 10H
Some hummed. Some counted lights on the ceiling. Some talked to the person in the next bed. Hands rhythmically squeezed soft white sponges. Feet crossed and uncrossed. Skirts were tugged down and hair patted into place.
Two hundred fifty-six KU students, nearly twice yesterday's total, today made the truth around the Kansas Union lobby, from registration to medical history, to the beds, and finally, to the canteen.
THEY WERE GIVING blood for the Defense Department.
Model UN Goes Beat
A poster with the picture of a beatnik in non-conformist attire is drawing varying reactions among KU's students and administrative personnel.
It is the KU-Y Model-U.N. poster. A bearded beatnik in dark glasses, a French beret, a loose sweater, Viet Cong pajamas and Arabic thongs, holds, in an outstretched left arm, a poster with the United Nation's symbol of peace.
THE POSTER READS. "Protest with sophistication! Form a delegation for Model UN."
Bob Ward, Wichita sophomore on the Model-U.N. publicity committee, said that a secretary in Lindley Hall would not allow him to hang the poster there because she thought it was against the U.N.
"Of course, she got a good laugh out of it when I explained it to her." he said.
RUTH HATCH, Evansville, Ill., junior and Model-U.N. publicity chairman, originated the idea of the beatnik poster. With all the non-conformist protest in the world, steering committee members agreed to push the idea for the poster because they thought it would attract attention, and reorient thinking from well-publicized open means of protest, to the refined protest of forums like the U.N.
Moo, Moo, In India
Do you know which country has the largest cattle population in the world? It's India, where the cow is sacred. Herds number 700,000,000 bovines.
Official Bulletin
TODAY
Water Well Drillers, All Day. Union.
County Clerk School, All Day. Unio-
nity.
"Blood for Viet Nam" Collection
to 5.15 p.m. Kansas Union Lounge.
Catholic Mass, 4:45 p.m. St. Lawrence Chapel. Fundamentals of Catholic Faith, 7 p.m.; Open Door, 8:15 p.m.
La Première Reunion du semestre
du mois de décembre
le 16 février a quatre heures et demie
dans la Salle Pine de l'Union. Tous
les ans ont angéliscés ans sont
blancement invités
Meeting of Off-Campus and Married Women Students, Open discussion on AWS representation. 7:30 p.m.
109 Bl.
Wrestling. 7:30 p.m. Kansas State.
Allen Field House.
SUA Speaker, 8 p.m. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Hoch Aud.
Senior Recital. 8 p.m. Nancy Willis-
bear. Ensemble and ensemble.
Swarthout Recital Hall.
Carillon Recital, 7 p.m. Albert Gerken.
TOMORROW
Catholic Mass. 6:45 a.m. and 4:45
a.m.; Existential phenomeno-
mentals of Catholic Faith, 10:40 a.m.
and 7 p.m.; Existential phenomene-
mentals of Thomistic metaphysies,
10:40 p.m.
Deutsche Verein trifft sich am
Donnerstag den 17 Feb. 1966. Das
Program lautet: Amerika: in deutsche
Augen.
SUA Minority Opinions Forum, 4:30 p.m. Frank Wilkenson, Chrm. of Room to Abolish HUAC. Forum Room, Union. "The Constitutionality of HUAC."
Lutheran Worship; 4:30 p.m. Sponsor by all Lutherans, Danforth Changel
County Clerk School, All Day. Union.
"Two four, Seesaw," Murphy Hall.
College Life, 9 p.m. TKE, 1911
Stewart, Fran Hanna on Resurrection of Christ.
A staff of nearly 50 nurses, Gray Ladies, and student volunteers shepherded the students along, smiling, talking, encouraging.
Nick Brocker, Prairie Village junior and chairman of the drive, was pleased with today's results. "I'm proud of us, of KU," he said.
THE STUDENTS WHO gave, too, were proud. But they had difficulty answering the question, "Why did you give blood?"
One young lady answered quickly and firmly. Terry Hardman. Newton freshman said,
"Because my father's in Viet
Nam."
Answers from other students came less quickly.
"THEY NEED US, I guess.
That's all."
"I don't know how to say why."
"I just want to do what I can."
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The students seemed to feel a sense of responsibility, often difficult to voice, but strong enough to bring them to the center.
BUT UNDERUSED
Steve Johns, Wichita sophomore, said, "I just realized an obligation to the men in Viet Nam."
THE SPIRIT OF the drive, its organizers and participants, seems to be summed up in a poster quietly displayed by the registration table:
"We are not condoning the existing policy and situation in Viet Nam, rather we realize our commitment to aid Americans involved."
Writing Clinic Aids English Pro Failures
Jones works with John Wilson, an assistant, in Lindley Annex. Presently they are aiding five students, but Jones said they are busiest right after the results are published.
qqqsA and writing exercises and on exceptional cases, refer them to grammar books."
Students who failed the English Proficiency Exam are not taking advantage of the writing clinic in the English Department, according to Millard Jones, assistant instructor of English.
Jones said only 40 to 50 per cent of those who failed last October's exam have gone to the clinic for review.
THE WRITING clinic is an informal class, independent from the proficiency examination, which students may join voluntarily. Students seeking help are worked with individually, receiving assistance according to their needs.
"When a student comes to the clinic," Jones said, "we review his paper with him and offer him special instruction if he thinks he needs it. For those who ask for further help we assign reading
Jones said students who fail, figure they didn't work enough on the paper, and do not seek help. He suggests, however, they should at least stop by the clinic to see their papers.
"THE CLINIC does help students," he said. "The crucial thing is that the students must make the effort. We are here only to criticize their works. A senior student who failed the exam three times finally decided to take some training from us and passed the exam."
"Let's unplug the computer, boys! Start thinking!"
A lot of people believe that someday computers will do all their thinking for them.
Well, a funny thing is going to happen on the way to the future:
You're going to have to think harder and longer than ever.
Computers can't dream up things like Picturephone service, Telstar $ ^{\circ} $ satellite, and some of the other advances in communications we have made. Of course, we depended on computers to solve some of the problems connected with their development. But computers need absolutely clear and thorough instructions, which means a new and tougher discipline on the human intelligence.
And it will take more than a computer to create a pocket phone the size of a matchbook, let's say... or find
a practical way to lock a door or turn off an oven by remote telephone control, or to make possible some of the other things we'll have someday.
It takes individuals...perhaps you could be one...launching new ideas, proposing innovations and dreaming dreams.
And someday, we're going to have to find a way to dial locations in space. Makes you think.
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